New N64 Core (Mupen64Plus NEXT) is now available for PSC and (S)NESC!

The new N64 core from Libretro is now available from the ModMyClassic website for the Playstation Classic, NESC and SNESC!

Big shout out to M4XW who has been the main guy working behind this. He has mainly been working on it for Nintendo Switch however it comes with lots of benefits to other platforms too. Also compcom for the compile

Don't get too excited though, this is NOT going to be 100% perfect emulation, infact it's far from it. You will likely get graphical glitches, however you should get a more stable and slightly smoother experience with this core.

I will stress that this is more of a stablility improvement rather than a performance improvement however users of the PlayStation Classic should experience a slight increase in performance too.

Common glitches will be missing textures (displaying as black on screen.) This is common however if you have textures flashing in and out repeatedly, let me know.

This core should be your first port of call when emulating N64. However to get the best possible emulation experience you should always try each game under each three cores available for the N64: Mupen64Plus Next, Mupen64Plus and Parallel.

I've installed Mupen Plus Next and tested out some of my problem games. Beetle Adventure Racing, unfortunately ran worst than it did on Glupen and crashed even faster. I'm also using the memory boost mod. (the game is also accessed from USB btw). So this game is a total no-go. :(

Super Smash Bros 1, is even choppier with this new core too. Glupen is much smoother (but choppy none the less in some situations, like when the camera pans out).

Quake still has it's problems. No change. I'm removing it. Not worth playing when you can see enemies and hidden objects through walls. :/

F-Zero X, still has it's menu glitches. No change. But it runs the actual races fine. Sameas on the Glupen core.

Star Fox 64, seems unchanged too, though there's a screen glitch when the Nintendo logo loads up at start. Everything else seems the same as it performs on Glupen.

Mikey's Speedway USA, stutters way more on the menu screens and at the start of every race, than before. Runs better on Glupen with memory boost mod.

The rest of my games, run okay to real good on Glupen, as it is (nothing perfect of course.). So I will leave those be.

I'm just sad Mupen Plus Next, couldn't fix the instabilities of Beetle Adventure and Quake. Ahh well. The effort is always appreciated! I know other games that didn't work at all, are now. So that's always a good thing. I'll just stick with Glupen for my library of 28 working games until any further updates are made. Also not sure if running my games via usb should be of any concern to me, vs running them straight off the NAND memory, or perhaps an SD mod, for faster access to the data.

For the sake of making any of these games run better, I hope I made a mistake. :)

This is what I did and if you can tell me where I went wrong, I'd totally appreciate it, man.

I downloaded the NES/SNEC mupen plus next core and dropped it into my hmod folder, along with my other hmods, I had already installed. I connected my SNESC directly to my pc, loaded up Hakchi2 CE 3.5.0 (retroarch NEO 1.7.4a), and found the hmod in the hmod list, then installed it to the console.

Next, I disconnected my console and grabbed my USB with all my games in it and dropped in some problem titles (like Beetle Adventure Racing, Quake and the ones I listed up there).

Here's something to note. When selecting the emulation core, via the emulation core list, per every game (you know, when you right click on a game, you have that select emulation core option? That's what I use to select my core normally (so I know I'm not making any typo mistake, punching in the line myself, via the command line), I noticed I couldn't find the Mupen Plus Next on the list.

Every other core came up, except that one. So I went ahead and put in " mupen64plusnext " myself.

So the command line for Beetle Adventure Racing, for example, looks like this :

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